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In the nation’s largest lead Superfund site, Bunker Hill, a 1500 square mile, an EPA designated NPL area stretching from the Idaho, Montana border on into Washington State, children are not running very well. The lead testing of children is being compromised. Not only are thousands of children not being tested by a multitude of government agencies including the Environmental Protection Agency there are serious repercussions for anyone speaking out about lead and the health problems exposure can cause. In desperation the Silver Valley Community Resource Center a 25 year old non-profit organization whose board and members represent six generations of families living in the area with chronic lead poisoned health conditions reached out to begin a Community Lead Health Project in the summer of 2012. The project began on a small scale with 3 families and five children. Out of the five children tested two were found with elevated lead levels. SVCRC and its outside networking support followed...

Recently I sent out a message about this study, pointing out the use of fractionated omega 3 in the DHA only form, and a low dose, les than therapeutic recommendations. Now another of many commentaries has been published. Before you believe the talking heads on your TV station or the internet aggregator sites, do a bit of your own investigation.  We hope this helps. Several scientific studies have found a reduction in prostate cancer associated with increased omega-3 intake. 1-11 A recent report purportedly showed the opposite. 12 This report was based on a single blood test of plasma fatty acids in a group of 834 men who were followed up to six years to assess prostate cancer risk (low- and high-grade disease). A smaller group of 75 men was followed up to nine years to assess only high-grade prostate cancer risk. The results showed that slightly higher omega-3 plasma percentages from this single blood test were associated with a greater risk of low-grade ( 44% ) and hi...

Here's the latest CODEX update from National Health Federation Anti-Vitamin Misinformation The Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC) celebrated its 50 th  year of existence the first week of July while also conducting its 36 th  session, with several hundreds of member-state delegates and non-governmental organizations in attendance.  Chairman Sanjay Dave was re-elected as CAC Chairman and presided over the meeting in a fair and business-like manner.           But fair and business-like did not compensate for the Commission’s gross nutritional ignorance that resulted in certain Nutrient Reference Values (NRVs) being approved for vitamins and minerals over the repeated and strong objections of the National Health Federation (NHF), a Codex-accredited non-governmental organization.           As Scott Tips – the NHF’s delegate at that meeting – remarked afterwards, “ Of course we spoke up  in opposition to ap...

While this article from Gary Scattergood is written about the issue of malnutrition in the UK it is certainly appropriate to raise the same question in the US. In the late 60s when I was in college earning my NP degrees I studied nutrition as an integrated part of the the curriculum.  Certainly we knew then that malnutrition was an issue directly related to health, not some obscure thought.  Even then we knew cancer for instance was a nutritional disease as were many hospital related deaths. Disease now is just thought of as a deficiency of some pharmaceutical drug and the problem is not addressed from all possible and interrelated issues.   Shame on health providers, shame on dietitians, government, and big business along with seemingly ignorant legislators. Put the spotlight on malnutrition instead of obesity The UK is in dire need of a national strategy to tackle malnutrition, which is at least as big a problem to public health and the public...